Insurers issuing segregated fund policies apply dynamic hedging to mitigate risks related to guarantees embedded in … the imperfect correlation between the underlying fund and its corresponding hedging instruments. The current work … discusses the implications of using fund mapping regressions when the joint dynamics of the underlying and hedging assets is a …

In the framework of the industrial economics approach to banking we extend the analysis of hedging against default on … loans to the case of two types of credit risk. Standard results on the optimal hedge volume and the hedging effectivity from …In the framework of the industrial economics approach to banking we extend the analysis of hedging against default on …

. We find that, depending on whether futures contracts are used for risk reduction (i.e., hedging) or risk taking (i …

existing belief elicitation results, (ii) can we avoid potential hedging confounds? Our results instill confidence regarding … both issues. We propose an experimental design that eliminates hedging opportunities, and use this to test for the … empirical relevance of hedging effects in the lab. We find no evidence for hedging, comparing the standard hedging-prone" belief …

hedging the Value at Risk is zero and the bank chooses to over-hedge. …